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Is This a Product of the Dark Ages?
i think i take a much longer time view than the typical western enlightenment philosopher, who tends to think like charles taylor. What we're talking about here is something that's indescribably deeper than merely what happened in the enlightenment. And so you can see the enlightenment, as part of that, s that the spirit of truth was highly developed and that led people to start to criticise the very structure that had given rise to that desire for truth. It's like once the rationalists and the empiricists got going, ah, we started to form ate a very powerful doctrine of the objective world. The idea emerged with incredible rapidity and demolished everything in its path, essentially